Quotes About Expectation

Guard some point guards, late shot clock, hopefully they miss.

I remember reading 'The Guest' and thinking, 'This is going to be something!'

Well, you know it was so different from when you rehearsed. You're out there with your guitar and trying to get a sound, but it doesn't sound anything like what you expect!

How many pessimists does it take to change a lightbulb? Never mind. Nobody would get the joke anyway.

Wake me when whatever terrible thing is about to happen happens, or if it appears I might get wet.

BECAUSE THEY LOOK SO SURPRISED TO BE EATEN UP! guffawed the giant. PRINCESSES ALWAYS EXPECTS TO GET RESCUED. Do they? asked Anya mildly. Better they should rescue themselves.

Sometimes it's like that. You know something good is coming, and even though it's not even close yet, still, just knowing it's coming is enough to make you snort and nicker. Sort of. -Jack

Tomorrow. He watched the flames and smiled. Tomorrow I'll see. All things come tomorrow.

H)e had learned the primary rule about danger. It would come if it would come. You could try to be ready for it, you could plan on it, you could even expect it, but it would come when it wanted to come.

He had forgotten the most important thing about living in the wilderness, the one thing he'd thought he would never forget-expect the unexpected. What you didn't think would get you, would get you. Plan on the worst and be happy when it didn't come.

Never assume anything, expect the unexpected, be ready for everything all the time. And

Dad still believes that everything will always work out. I believe that nothing ever happens like you think it will. But both of us know that real life is always a million times better than anything you can imagine.

He had forgotten the most important thing about living in the wilderness, the one thing he'd thought he would never forget—expect the unexpected. What you didn't think would get you, would get you. Plan on the worst and be happy when it didn't come.

In America, the distance between wanting something and having it delivered to your living room is not terribly great.

The House on the Hill was in a tizzy. At long last, it was time to go home.

We encounter regression to the mean almost every day of our lives. We should try to anticipate it, recognize it, and not be fooled by it.

As long as you thought me handsome, you could have come back, I know you would have come back.

He had a heart that could have held the empire of the world; and, in the end, he had to content himself with a cellar

The social science fear the radical impulse in literary studies, and over the decades, we in the humanities have trivialized the social sciences into their rational expectation straitjackets, not recognizing that, whatever the state of the social sciences in our own institution, strong tendencies toward acknowledging the silent but central role of the humanities in the area studies paradigm are now around.

always squinting around the corner for the future that is already with us, at our ease, elsewhere

Still no word from Mel.

I am to expect no help from him. I AM help.

The perfect life, the perfect lie, I realised after Christmas, is one which prevents you from doing that which you would ideally have done (painted, say, or written unpublishable poetry) but which, in fact, you have no wish to do.

Just 'cause the cat had her kittens in the oven don't make them biscuits.